In the summer of 2006, I spent six weeks at an excavation at Kayalıpınar (“Rocky Springs”), Sivas, Turkey. The department of archaeology of the university of Marburg, Germany is excavating a Hittite settlement there, and I had the opportunity to join them and experience an archaeological excavation first-hand. Of course this time was accompanied by many many impressions, which I captured with my Panasonic Lumix FZ30. Some of them I would like to share with you in this gallery.

The winged sun, symbol of the Hittite empire (2nd millenium B.C.)

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Kayalıpınar, Sivas, Turkey	The 'Red River'	Selling melons
Anatolian village	Cattle being watered	Restrooms
An old water boiler	At the excavation site	At toad at lake Hafik
Sun rising above the hills	Kids watering cattle	Driving the cattle
Herd of sheep	Crescent moon over the fields	Dry land
Bad weather coming up	'A fire in the sky'	Sunriser over the excav. site
Monolith	Photographing the site	Tractor at sunrise
Imminent sunrise	In the fields	The excavation site
Golden moon rising	Decaying building #1	4 eylül memorial
Sivas, Turkey	Decaying building #2	Great morning sky
Bird in the bushes	Evening at Kayalıpınar	Evening sky #1
Evening sky #2

I will add more pictures to this gallery every now end then when I find the time, so stay tuned!